Senior Go Microservices Engineer — Scalable Backend & AI Tools

Prediktive; Los Angeles (CA); Remote; USD 150,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Long-term positions

Remote work possible

Work with top engineers

Job summary

Prediktive seeks an Enterprise Software Engineer to work remotely on a long-term project for a LA-based online video startup. You will design and build Go-based backends, refactor Node.js services to Go, and operate Kafka pipelines in a cloud/Kubernetes environment.

You will mentor engineers, review architecture, and champion testing, CI/CD, and security. AI-enabled tooling knowledge is a plus as you prototype scalable platforms.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional software engineering experience with backend production services.
• 3+ years building Go-based production services with concurrency and profiling.
• Experience designing high-performance gRPC and REST APIs with protobuf contracts.
• Experience with Kafka and event streaming pipelines.
• Experience running services on Kubernetes in AWS or GCP.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain data-intensive gRPC and REST APIs in Go and Node.js.
• Refactor legacy Node.js services into idiomatic Go, improving performance and stability.
• Build and operate Kafka pipelines for high throughput event streaming, including producer and consumer logic, schema management, and monitoring.
• Containerize and deploy Go microservices on Kubernetes (EKS and GKE), using AWS and GCP services to build resilient, cost-effective systems.
• Contribute to architecture reviews with practical feedback on scalability, fault tolerance, and cost.
• Review code, mentor junior engineers, and champion best practices in testing, CI/CD, and security.
• Partner with Product, Program Management, QA, and other teams to align delivery with business goals.
• Prototype emerging technologies, including AI-assisted tools, to build and scale large platforms and workflows.

Skills

Go backend

API design

Kafka

Kubernetes

Cloud (AWS/GCP)

AI tooling awareness

Mentoring

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS or related

Tools

AWS

GCP

Protobuf

Docker

Prometheus/Grafana/OpenTelemetry

Redis/MongoDB

Helm

Terraform

Job description

Prediktive seeks an Enterprise Software Engineer to work remotely on a long-term project for a LA-based online video startup. You will design and build Go-based backends, refactor Node.js services to Go, and operate Kafka pipelines in a cloud/Kubernetes environment.

You will mentor engineers, review architecture, and champion testing, CI/CD, and security. AI-enabled tooling knowledge is a plus as you prototype scalable platforms.